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If you live in the Santa Fe area, my band Venus Bogardus is playing at Santa Fe Sol for the SXSF festival tomorrow night (friday). It's an early all-ages show, but with a full bar for 21+ with ID. It would be great to see you there.
“Reading I, Judas, I found myself often provoked, occasionally disgusted or even enraged, and always riveted. It's not often that a book or a writer not only confounds my expectations, but makes me question a set of assumptions I didn't even know I held.” —Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia
“This one'll have you clenched in a fetal position for a century, relieved only by the occasional orgasms of its mellifluous prose. You have to be strong to read this book: it rains fireballs." —Andrei Codrescu, author of Whatever Gets you through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments
"As Taliban fundamentalists dynamited the Bamiyan Buddhas, with this book Reich blows up the Gospels...Yeats' Second Coming is so optimistic in comparison. Reich writes beautifully... a gruesome enchantment...a new and personal understanding of that old-fashioned word blasphemous...iconoclastic and brutal prose poetry." - The Historical Novel Review
"Buy a copy of James Reich's novel I, Judas. Walk alongside Judas and Jesus, taste the wine, smell the whores, slip the noose over your head, witness the fear, self loathing and betrayal. Then... abandon all hope... of putting it down until you've finished reading it." - Dirt City Chronicles
"James Reich is a sensible product of 20th century literature, Faulkner, Joyce, Cortazar, Ginsberg, Dylan, -- and film maker Kenneth Anger...Best is his surprising ability to strike home continually with an exalted, consummate phrase, paragraph, even a word...a fascinating thinker...a genuine writer." - Charley Dunlap, Listomania
"Reich proves to be a thoughtful and meticulous provocateur - a much-needed voice in contemporary fiction. In I, Judas, there is a delicious lawlessness of prose, a revolt against conventional language and storytelling. Some may take offense to his insinuations; but isn't that often the case with great fiction?" - Pasatiempo Magazine, New Mexican
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